Leen van Ofwegen – Publications

1987: Ofwegen, L.P. van. Melithaeidae (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) from the Indian Ocean and the Malay Archipelago.— Zool. Verh.Leiden 239:

1-57,35 figs.

1989: Ofwegen, L.P. van. On Wrightella coccinea (Ellis & Solander, 1786) and Wrightella stiasnyi spec. nov. (Anthozoa: Gorgonacea:Melithaeidae).

— Zool. Meded. Leiden 63 (3): 27-34.

1990: Ofwegen, L.P. van. Notes on the Keroeididae (Anthozoa: Gorogonacea) collected in 1963 and 1964 by the International IndianOcean Expedition

of the R/V “Anton Bruun”, in the Indian Ocean, with the description of a new species, Lignella hartogi spec. nov.— Zool.Meded. Leiden 63 (13):

163-168.

1991: Ofwegen, L.P. van & J. Vennam. Notes on Octocorallia from the Laccadives ( SW India).— Zool. Meded. Leiden 65 (9): 143-154.

1991: Verseveldt, J. & L.P. van Ofwegen. Five new species of the genus Dendronephthya Kükenthal, 1905 (Octocorallia: Nephtheidae)from the Indian

Ocean.— Zool. Meded. Leiden 65 (10): 155-169.

1992: Ofwegen, L.P. van & Y. Benayahu. Notes on Alcyonacea (Octocorallia) from Tanzania.— Zool. Meded. Leiden 66 (6): 139-154.

1992: Verseveldt, J. & L.P. van Ofwegen. New and redescribed species of Alcyonium Linnaeus, 1758 (Anthozoa: Alcyonacea).—Zool. Meded. Leiden

66 (7): 155-181.

1994: Ofwegen, L.P. van. Pseudothelogorgia, a new genus of Gorgonacean Octocorals from the Indian Ocean.— Precious Corals & Octocoral

Research 3: 19 -22, fig. 1. pls. 1-2.

1994: Ofwegen, L.P. van & M. Slierings. Octocorallia. In: Oceanic reefs of the Seychelles (ed. J. van der Land): 93-95.— Leiden.

1994: Ofwegen, L.P. van & J. Vennam. Results of the Rumphius Biohistorical Expedition to Ambon (1990). Part 3. The Alcyoniidae (Octocorallia:

Alcyonacea).— Zool. Meded. Leiden 68 (14): 135-158, figs. 1-20.

1996: Ofwegen, L.P. van. Octocorallia from the Bismarck Sea (part II).— Zool. Med. Leiden 70 (13): 207-215, figs. 1-5.

1996: Vennam, J. & L.P. van Ofwegen. Soft corals (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from the Laccadives ( SW India), with are-examination

of Sinularia gravis Tixier-Durivault, 1970.— Zool. Meded. Leiden 70 (29): 437-452.

1997: Casas, C., F. Ramil & L.P. van Ofwegen. Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the Scotia Arc, South Atlantic Ocean. I. The genus

Alcyonium Linnaeus, 1758.— Zool. Meded. Leiden 71 (26): 299-311, figs. 1-10.

1997: Handayani, D., R.A. Edrada, P. Proksch, V. Wray, L. Witte, L. van Ofwegen & A. Kunzmann. New Oxygenated Sesquiterpenes from the

Indonesian Soft Coral Nephthea chabrolii.— J. Nat. Prod. 60: 716-718.

1997: Ofwegen, L.P. van. The present status of taxonomic knowledge of octocorals in Indonesia.--- In: Tomascik et al. The Ecologyof the Indonesian

Seas I: 345-346.

1997: Ofwegen, L.P. van & M.H. Schleyer. Corals of the South-west Indian Ocean V. Leptophyton benayahui gen. nov. & spec. nov.(Cnidaria,

Alcyonacea) from deep reefs off Durban and on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast, South Africa. — South African Assoc. Marine Biol. Res.,

Oceanographic Research Institute Investigational Report 71: 1-12, color frontisp., figs. 1-6.

1998: Benayahu, Y., L.P. van Ofwegen & P. Alderslade. A case study of variation in two nominal species of Sinularia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia),

S. brassica May, 1898, and S. dura (Pratt, 1903), with a proposal for their synonymy.— Zool. Verh. Leiden 323: 277-309, figs. 1-30.

1998: Edrada, R.A., P. Proksch, V. Wray, L. Witte & L. van Ofwegen. Four new bioactive diterpenes of the soft coral Lobophytum pauciflorum

from Mindoro , Philippines.— J. Nat. Prod. 61: 358-361.

1998: Morris, L.A., E.M. Christie, M. Jaspars & L.P. van Ofwegen. A bioactive Secosterol with an Unusual A- and B-Ring Oxygenation Pattern

Isolated from an Indonesian Soft Coral Lobophytum sp.— J. Nat. Prod.61: 538-541.

1999: Ofwegen, L.P. van. Lobophytum jasparsi spec. nov. from Indonesia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Alcyonacea).— Zool. Meded. Leiden 73 (8):

177-185, figs. 1-6.

1999: Reinicke, G.B. & L.P. van Ofwegen. Soft corals (Alcyonacea: Octocorallia) from shallow water in the Chagos Archipelago: species assemblages

and their distribution. In: Ecology of the Chagos Archipelago (eds C.R.C. Sheppard & M.R.D. Seaward): 67-85.— Linnean Society Occasional

Publications 2.

2000: Bruno Cinel, Michel Roberge, Hans Behrisch, Leen van Ofwegen, Clovis B. Castro, and Raymond J. Andersen. Antimitotic Diterpenes from

Erythropodium caribaeorum Test Pharmacophore Models for Microtubule Stabilization.— Organic Letters2000 2 (3): 257-260.

2000: Ofwegen,L.P. van, N.K.C. Goh & L.M. Chou. The Melithaeidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) of Singapore.— Zool. Meded. Leiden 73 (19):

285-304, figs. 1-13.

2000: Lin Xu, Brian O. Patrick, Michel Roberge, Theresa Allen, Leen van Ofwegen & Raymond J. Andersen. New Diterpenoids from the Octocoral

Pachyclavularia violacea Collected in Papua New Guinea.— Tetrahedron 56: 9031-9037.

2000: Ru Angelie Edrada, Victor Wray, Ludger Witte, Leen van Ofwegen and Peter Proksch, Bioactive Terpenes from the Soft Coral Heteroxenia sp.

from Mindoro, Philippines.—Z. Naturforsch 55c: 82-86.

2001: Ofwegen, L.P. van. Sinularia vanderlandi spec. nov. (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from the Seychelles.— Zool. Verh. Leiden 334: 103-114.

2001: Ofwegen, L.P. van & B.W. Hoeksema. Astrogorgia bayeri, a new gorgonian octocoral species from South Sulawesi (Coelenterata: Octocorallia:

Plexauridae).— Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 10: 66-70.

2002: Ofwegen, L.P. van, Status of knowledge of the Indo Pacific soft coral genus Sinularia May, 1898 (Anthozoa: Octocorallia).— Proc. 9th int. Coral

Reef Symposium, Bali , 2000, 1: 167-171.

2003: Ocana, O. & L.P. van Ofwegen. Two new genera and one new species of stoloniferous octocorals (Anthozoa: Clavulariidae).— Zool. Verh. Leiden

345: 269-274.

2004: Hoeksema, B.W. & L.P. van Ofwegen. Reef corals of Indonesia and SE Asia : a generic overview.— World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series

ETI, Amsterdam .

2004: O. Ocaña, J.C. den Hartog & L.P. van Ofwegen. Ring Sea anemones, an overview (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Actiniaria).— Graellsia, 60 (2): 143-154.

2004: Schleyer, M.H., L.P. van Ofwegen & G.B. Reinicke. Soft Corals of the Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea.— CORDIO CD ROM.

2005: Guoqiang Li, Zhiwei Deng, Huashi Guan, Leen van Ofwegen, Peter Proksch, Wenhan Li. Steroids from the soft coral Dendronephthya sp.—

Steroids 70 (2005): 13-18.

2005: Li G, Zhang Y, Deng Z, van Ofwegen L, Proksch P, Lin W. Cytotoxic cembranoid diterpenes from a soft coral Sinularia gibberosa.— J. Nat.

Prod.68 (5): 649-652.

2005: Jin P, Deng Z, Pei Y, Fu H, Li J, van Ofwegen L, Proksch P, Lin W. Polyhydroxylated steroids from the soft coral Sinularia dissecta.— Steroids 70

(8): 487-493.

2005: Ofwegen, L.P. van, A new genus of nephtheid soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Nephtheidae) from the Indo-Pacific.— Zool. Meded. Leiden 79

4: 1-236.

2006: Hermanlimianto, M.IY.T & L.P. van Ofwegen. A new species of Astrogorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Plexauridae) from Bali. --- Zool. Meded.

Leiden 80-4 (10): 103-108.

2006: Stokvis, F.R. and L.P. van Ofwegen. New and redescribed encrusting species of Alcyonium from the Atlantic Ocean (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea:

Alcyoniidae). --- Zool. Meded. Leiden 80-4 (13): 165-183.

2006: Ofwegen, L.P. van & Y. Benayahu. A new genus of paralcyoniid soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Paralcyoniddae) from the Indo-West Pacific.

--- Galaxea, JCRS 8: 25-37.

2006: Ofwegen, L.P. van, V. Haussermann & G. Forsterra. A new genus of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alconacea:Clavulariidae) from Chile. --- Zootaxa

1219: 47-57.